News from Iraq

http://pamelageller.com/2014/08/archbishop...s-muslims.html/



At our pro-Israel rally on Sunday, leaders from across the world warned the crowd of the impending threat of Islam to America.

One million Christians have been killed or have had to flee Iraq because of persecution by jihadists.

But the world convulses over Israel defending herself from ISIS, aka Hamas in Gaza.

Archbishop of Mosul: ‘I Have Lost My Diocese to Islam; You in the West Will Also Become Victims of Muslims’, Breitbart, August 18, 2014

The exiled Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul, Iraq, is warning westerners about welcoming an increasing number of Muslims into their countries, naively believing that they too believe in democratic principles.

“Our sufferings today are the prelude of those you, Europeans and Western Christians, will also suffer in the near future,” said Archbishop Amel Shimoun Nona in an interview by Corriere della Sera. “I lost my diocese. The physical setting of my apostolate has been occupied by Islamic radicals who want us converted or dead. But my community is still alive.”

The archbishop’s interview was reported by the blog Rorate Caeli.

Nona, whose Eastern Rite church is under the authority of Pope Francis, now lives in Erbil, in Kurdistan, Iraq.

The archbishop warned:

Please, try to understand us. Your liberal and democratic principles are worth nothing here. You must consider again our reality in the Middle East, because you are welcoming in your countries an ever growing number of Muslims. Also you are in danger. You must take strong and courageous decisions, even at the cost of contradicting your principles. You think all men are equal, but that is not true: Islam does not say that all men are equal. Your values are not their values. If you do not understand this soon enough, you will become the victims of the enemy you have welcomed in your home.

CNSNews.com observes the Chaldean Catholic Church can be traced back to Thomas the Apostle, one of Jesus’s original twelve apostles. The actual diocese of Mosul was established in 1967, with the main church being St. Paul’s Cathedral.

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Hi guys, this Sunday our church got a very special service. It is our Malaysia Church Conference (MCC). Meaning all our congregation from Malaysia will travel to KL here for this conference. Will have special performance. If not clash with your service, feel free to visit and join us ya

Venue: 3rd Floor Wisma MCA
Time: 10am

Caleb, the venue for this Sunday is not PJ but Wisma MCA, Ampang

This post has been edited by ngaisteve1: Aug 28 2014, 12:15 PM

If you're feeling down, let this song bring a smile.

Oh yeah, I'm supposed to go to the bukit jalil morning service this sunday too...


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takut got suicide bomber.

you attending the methodist prayer rally this sunday at bukit jalil?

hi all....reporting in....i am christian also....

Welcome

I hope so. Mom wants to go and I don't want her to go alone.

Go there and be encouraged seeing multitudes of Believers.

btw Tomorrow and Sat Also Methodist Convention but at Sunway.

Welcome Bro in Christ.

are you following the church bus? or you are going on your own if you are going on your own please be there early service start at 10 am and entrance is at D gate if i am not mistaken

not many people will attend mainly pastors and elderly members for those working peoples i doubt they are attending, even i am not going as well

going on our own since we live near the LRT. Thanks!

CHRIST-HIS PERSON

IN THE GODHEAD - The Effulgence of God’s Glory and the Express Image of God’s Substance

Hebrews 1:3 says that Christ is the effulgence of God’s glory and the express image of God’s substance. The effulgence of God’s glory is like the shining, or the brightness, of the light of the sun. Christ is the shining, the brightness, of the Father’s glory. The effulgence cannot be separated from the glory just as the shining of the sun cannot be separated from the rays of the sun, since the shining and the rays are one.

We may use an electric light as an illustration of the relationship between the effulgence and the glory. Light is the expression of electricity. Although electricity is a mystery, it is a reality. We can tell that electricity is in a certain room by the shining of the electric lights in that room. Light is the effulgence of the “glory” of electricity. In like manner, Christ is the effulgence of God’s glory.

Hebrews 1:3 says not only that Christ is the effulgence of God’s glory but also that He is the express image of God’s substance. The glory is the outward expression, and the substance is the inward essence. God has His essence as well as His appearance; He has His substance as well as His glory. We do not have adequate words to explain these matters. We can say only that our God is glorious and substantial. As far as His glory is concerned, Christ is the effulgence of this glory, and as far as God’s substance is concerned, Christ is the express image of this substance.

The express image of God’s substance is like the impress of a seal. Christ is the expression of what God the Father is. A seal has an image. When the seal is pressed upon paper, the paper bears the same express image as the seal bears. Suppose a seal has certain letters. When this seal is pressed on a piece of paper, the paper will bear the same image with the same letters as the seal. Christ is not only the effulgence of God’s glory; He is also the impress of God’s substance. Here we have the substance within and the expression without. The substance within is the source of the express image, and the expression without is the effulgence of God’s glory.

For Christ to be the effulgence of God’s glory and the express image of His substance means that He is God coming to us. When I put a seal on a piece of paper, the seal comes to the paper. Likewise, Christ as the impress, the express image, of God’s substance is God coming to us. Therefore, Christ is God reaching us, God coming to be one with us. The shining of the sun’s rays is the sun reaching us. If we remain in the sunshine for a period of time, some element of the sun will be transfused into us. This is an experience of the sun reaching us. Likewise, Christ, the Son of God, is God Himself reaching us and coming to us. We have a God who reaches us, a God who comes to us to save us and to dispense Himself into us.

Colossians 1:15 and 2 Corinthians 4:4 say that Christ is the “image of God.” God is invisible, but Christ is His image, expressing what He is. The image in Colossians 1:15 does not mean a physical form, but an expression of God’s being in all His attributes. This interpretation is confirmed by Colossians 3:10 and 2 Corinthians 3:18. As the image of God, Christ is the expression of God. If a person had no physical form or image, he could not be expressed. A person is expressed through his physical image. Although God is invisible, He is expressed through His image, which is His Son.

To say that Christ is the image of God implies that He is the very God, the Creator. When we see Christ, we see the expression of the invisible God, for He Himself is God. Therefore, Christ, the image of the invisible God, is actually God Himself expressed.

Are you all still student?....i think i am the oldest here....

I am 35 but look like 28. Just kidding Welcome here

Hi Bro / Sis,

Is this what you are talking about ? event in bukit jalil ?

Methodist Prayer Convention 2014
Methodist Prayer Convention 2014 - Perhimpunan Doa Methodist 2014
Theme: "A Church after God's own heart"
Date & Venue:

29-30 August 2014 at Sunway Convention Centre
31-August: Gathering of all Methodist churches for a time of prayer & celebration, Putra Stadium, Bukit Jalil.
Speaker: Rev Dr Stephen Seamands. 2nd Plenary Speaker: Rev Dr Joshua Ting

- See more at: http://www.cornerstone.com.my/methodistchu...h.qiZL2Xqy.dpuf

I think oldest could be pehkay i remember him mentioning as first generation christian if not mistaken.

Myself already enter ....errr let just say consider old by /k/ standard but young in heart n head. Lol.

wakakak i am still a student ... 23